{"product_id":"a-brief-history-of-motion-9781526608314","title":"A Brief History of Motion","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Speckled with anecdotes, insights and surprises. It is great fun - and utterly timely' \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e    \u003cb\u003e'Standage writes with a masterly clarity' \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e    \u003cb\u003e'The product of deep research, great intelligence and burnished prose . . . It is rare that I encounter a non-fiction author whose prose is so elegant that it is worth reading for itself. Standage is a writer of this class' \u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e    Beginning around 3,500 BC with the wheel, and moving through the eras of horsepower, trains and bicycles, Tom Standage puts the rise of the car   and the future of urban transport   into a broader historical context.    Our society has been shaped by the car in innumerable ways, many of which are so familiar that we no longer notice them. Why does red mean stop and green mean go? Why do some countries drive on the left, and some on the right? How did cars, introduced only a little over a century ago, change the way the world was administere","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409829667159,"sku":"9781526608314","price":14.24,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-brief-history-of-motion-9781526608314","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}